Usually means: Ruthlessly competitive, showing no mercy.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cutthroat: Merriam-Webster
  2. cutthroat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cutthroat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cutthroat: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cutthroat, cutthroat: Wordnik
  6. cutthroat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cutthroat: Wiktionary
  8. cutthroat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cutthroat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cutthroat: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cutthroat, cutthroat: Dictionary.com
  12. cutthroat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Cutthroat (comics), Cutthroat (pool), Cutthroat, The Cutthroat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cutthroat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cutthroat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cutthroat: Rhymezone
  17. Cutthroat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cutthroat: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cutthroat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cutthroat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cutthroat: Encyclopedia

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Cutthroat: Sports Definitions

(Note: See cutthroats as well.)

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noun:  A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
noun:  An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
noun:  (uncountable) A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
adjective:  Involving the cutting of throats.
adjective:  Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.
adjective:  Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.
noun:  (linguistics) Short for cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”). [(linguistics) A compound word formed of a transitive verb and a noun, an (usually exocentric) agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound.]

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